Providing for the financing of higher education and related purposes ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the higher education services office for state grants, for interstate tuition reciprocity, for state work study, for the Minitex library program and MnLINK, for the learning network of Minnesota, for Edvest and for the Minnesota minority education partnership, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities for estimated instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for customized training and leveraged equipment purchases, for repair and replacement of state financed facilities, a degree audit reporting system, technology infrastructure, Y2k, virtual university and ISEEK, for grants to historically underfunded institutions demonstrating financial distress, for farm and small business management programs expansion and additional tuition subsidies, for the center for research and innovation at Bemidji state university, for a rural research center at Southwest state university, for the agricultural program at the Staples campus of the Central Lakes college and for health care and human services employees tuition waivers, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for estimated instructional and noninstructional expenditures, for primary care education initiatives, for academic health center compulsive gambling research, for agriculture experiment stations and the Minnesota extension service, for health sciences programs, for the geological survey, for the talented youth mathematics program, for general research, for student loans matching money, for industrial relations education, for the natural resources research institute, for the center for urban and regional affairs, for the Bell museum of natural history and for the Humphrey exhibit and to the Mayo medical foundation for the medical school and for the family practice and graduate residency and St. Cloud hospital Mayo family practice residency programs; setting the private institution tuition maximum and the living and miscellaneous expense allowance; requiring the HESO to collect information from participating institutions on the use of child care and work study allocations and to administer an income contingent loan repayment program to assist graduates of Minnesota schools in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, chiropractic medicine, public health and veterinary medicine and residents graduating from optometry and osteopathy programs, prohibiting the acceptance of new applicants after a certain date and requiring HESO to determine the borrowing and repayment problems of students in the academic health center and report findings and recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; sunsetting the library planning task force; authorizing metropolitan state university to retain money saved from a reduction in certain lease costs; requiring technical and consolidated colleges to use instructional advisory committees; requiring MnSCU to prepare a budget plan for the system office and report to the legislature by a certain date, to increase the percentage of the total general fund expenditures for direct instruction and academic support and to evaluate existing programs for teachers of color and urban teachers before authorizing new programs; authorizing the MnSCU board to waive tuition for eligible southwest Asia veterans, to construct certain facilities at Itasca community and Pine technical colleges and to sell certain Winona state university land; requiring the university of Minnesota to submit to the governor and the legislature a master academic plan for the Rochester region; requiring allocation of a certain amount of permanent university fund income from royalties for mining under state mineral leases designated for the NRRI to the department of landscape architecture to develop a long range plan for reclamation of taconite mining lands; requiring the academic health center to report to the legislature by a certain date on the strategic direction of health professional programs ARTICLE 2 - RELATED PROVISIONSModifying the authority of the commissioner of administration to require participation of the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities in the planning and implementation of the network to provide interconnective technologies under the state information infrastructure; requiring public and private post-secondary educational institutions information relating to the transmission and prevention of hepatitis A, B and C to first time enrollees, department of health consultation requirement; modifying the requirement for distribution by post-secondary institutions of hazing polices to students; modifying the membership of the student advisory council (SAC) to the higher education services council; reducing the grant stipend assigned student responsibility and the minimum financial stipend per academic year; requiring savings in the state grant program resulting from an increase in the maximum federal Pell grant to be used by the higher education services office (HESO) to increase the living and miscellaneous expense allowance; authorizing higher than the maximum child care grant awards under certain conditions; eliminating state funding of Edvest savings program promotional efforts costs, authorizing accounts investment without limit in investment options from certain federally registered open ended investment companies and expanding authorized private contributions to the program; providing an exception to the term limit for members of the MnSCU board; creating a student association for the state universities and one for the community and technical colleges; distinguishing among degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded by technical colleges or consolidated community and technical colleges as credentials demonstrating competence in vocational or technical areas, requiring students to be provided with applied training in general studies necessary for competence in the program area, providing for student assessment; authorizing and providing for the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to establish a school of professional and graduate studies as a nonresidential branch campus at Rochester to serve the needs of working adults and other nontraditional students in the area, requiring joint partnership with the Rochester community and technical college and Winona state university; expanding the definition of governmental unit for joint powers agreements purposes to include the university of Minnesota; transferring the farmer lender mediation program from the conflict and change center at the university of Minnesota Humphrey institute to the Minnesota extension service and extending the expiration date of the program; requiring the MnSCU board to submit to the legislature the master academic plan for the metropolitan area and a systemwide space utilization report; requiring the Minnesota education telecommunications council in conjunction with the higher education advisory council to develop a plan for the governance, financing and implementation of the learning network II and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioners of human services and children, families and learning to review child care program requirements for Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) participants to determine ways to better serve participants approved for a work plan and attending school part time without child care eligibility and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the MnSCU board in cooperation with relevant industries to develop a short term competency based standardized curricula in health care patient services and community support services for persons with long term care needs; repealing the nursing and nurses of color grant programs ARTICLE 3 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS "Private Career School Act"; modifying and clarifying certain requirements for private career schools; defining or redefining certain terms; modifying certain surety bond requirements, requiring the inclusion of gross income earned on license application forms by schools not filing the maximum bond amount; modifying and clarifying certain minimum license standards requirements; expanding catalog or brochure content requirements, providing for electronic displays; specifying a certain minimum duration for the retention of student records; requiring the higher education services office to adopt rules establishing different conditions for license renewal based on the record of the school, specifying application requirements, fee to be established by the HESO; requiring the provision of certain information to students relating to enrollment contracts or agreements; modifying and clarifying certain refund provisions; requiring the HESO to adopt rules establishing a list of civil penalties and fines associated with violations of certain prohibitions; modifying the exemptions from regulation; requiring the HESO to conduct a study of the licensure and regulation of private for-profit education and training providers in the state and make certain recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; repealing the public policy (Ch. 214, 1999)